MetaFilter posts tagged with obit and photography

His camera became a political voice for the forgotten ones.

zarq — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 17:27:24 -0800

"All my life I’ve focused on the poor. The rich ones have their own photographers."
Social documentary photographer Milton Rogovin's 'life was about seeing. In the literal sense, he was an optometrist. In a more figurative sense, through the lens of his camera, he saw things and people that were often ignored — the poor, the oppressed, the "forgotten ones," as he called them.' "A librarian in Buffalo's Communist Party, he was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1957, and was named "Buffalo's Top Red" in the Buffalo Evening News. Losing business and facing intense social persecution, Rogovin turned to photography in order to create images that conveyed his desire for a more equal and just society, and to give voice to others who were persecuted, who were invisible to most." Mr. Rogovin died on January 18th at his home in Buffalo at the age of 101. Previously on Metafilter If you're in Chicago and would like to see his work, the Gage Gallery opened an exhibition of photos yesterday, which will run until June 30th. Many of his prints and negatives have been acquired by the Library of Congress and the J. Paul Getty Museum. Galleries: * New York Times: Showcase * Reckon * ArtNet * MSNBC ...and here’s a photo of him with his family, from the Buffalo News. Amateur and Professional photographers are paying tribute to him on Flickr. Interview: Milton Rogovin and Robert Hirsch.

Kissing Edith Goodbye

mattdidthat — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:05:31 -0800

Edith Shain has died. She was 92. She worked at Doctor's Hospital in New York City during World War II, but you probably only knew her as an anonymous nurse. In the 1970s, Shain wrote to Alfred Eisenstaedt, claiming to be the nurse in the picture. The search for the sailor was much more difficult--eleven men claimed to be the one in the photograph, but in 2007 a forensic artist at the Houston Police Department determined Glenn McDuffie was the sailor.

seier + seier = (architecture + comment) x excellence

carbide — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 16:15:58 -0800

Jørn Utzon, the architect who designed Sydney Opera House despite the project being plagued by controversy and scandal, died today. While the rest of us are posting photographs of our drunken friends or the poetry of a plastic bag caught in the wind, one Flickr user is busy with pithy, insightful, considered and often witty architectural commentary supplementing exquisite architectural photography. This obituary for Utzon captures the cost of that project to the man himself and to the world. Some of the other highlights of SEIER + SEIER's writing and photography include the most exquisite of all flower kiosks, Copenhagen's Christiania and its architecture of reuse, the monumentality of Oscar Niemeyer's Brasilia, and the challenges of making a good urban built environment in Copenhagen.

RIP Richard Avedon.

Civil_Disobedient — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 12:47:43 -0800

Another master taken: Richard Avedon, dead at 81. Arguably the greatest portrait photographer in history, Avedon was famous not only for his fashion or celebrity shots, but also his interest in the common man, best emphasized by the book "In the American West". He was recently working on a piece, "On Democracy" when he suffered a brain hemorrhage. Many may be familiar with his simple black & white on white style from his shots for the New Yorker (he was their first staff photographer). His site is currently shrouded in respect.